From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:44964 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855Ab3KTIgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:36:37 -0500 Message-ID: <1384936585.14295.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20131120_093639_368795_ACD04545) Subject: Re: [PATCH] backports: remove obsolete linux/bitops.h header From: Johannes Berg To: Stefan Assmann Cc: Hauke Mehrtens , mcgrof@kernel.org, backports@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:36:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <528C7302.5030501@kpanic.de> References: <1384784803-16935-1-git-send-email-sassmann@kpanic.de> <528BEB63.3080600@hauke-m.de> <528C7302.5030501@kpanic.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 09:29 +0100, Stefan Assmann wrote: > On 19.11.2013 23:51, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > > On 11/18/2013 03:26 PM, Stefan Assmann wrote: > >> The header seems to be obsolete. Removing it and running devel/ckmake didn't > >> reveal any errors. Missing parts can always be re-added in the new > >> include_next fashion if necessary. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann > > > > Some of these functions are needed, because they are not provided by old > > kernel versions. > > Let me know what's a good way of figuring out what's still needed and > I'll replace the old header the way that Johannes suggested. Easiest is probably to try compiling against the oldest kernel we still support - that would be 2.6.25 - until all the drivers compile :) johannes